OARING BURGLARIES

Evening Star, Issue 20720, 17 February 1931, Page 12

OARING BURGLARIES

BIG HAUL IN BERLIN. KEEN EYE FOR DIAMONDS. ■ A recent Sunday was “Golden Sunday” for the people of Berlin. It certainly deserved its traditional name for a very business-like gang of burglars who carried off goods to the value of-over £5,000 and £750 in cash from a jeweller’s shop in the Kloiststrassc, one of the principal West End thoroughfares. The shop was guarded by two alarms. One was arranged to ring outside the building, but its clapper was twisted so that it did not strike the boll. The other must have actually rung inside the shop, but it was silenced so swiftly that it attracted no attention. The elaborate Jocks of the door were picked -how, is a mystery. The thieves must have driven up in n conveyance, for they took with them three heavy steel oxygen flasks, which were left behind almost completely drained of their contents. It is said that the melting open of the safe in which the booty was found must have taken at least five hours. The robbers showed a keen eye for valuable diamonds and other gems. A safe holding over £30,000 worth of pledges was left untouched, the thieves apparently knowing that its contents, though valuable, were too bulky for their purpose. The robbery was only discovered when the staff went down in the afternoon to open the shop for their “ Golden Sunday.” Simultaneously in another part of the town a general store was rifled from roof to cellars, and a whole vanful of goods, valued at £2,500, carried off.